Ukraine: The supervisory board of HeidelbergCement Ukraine (Dnipropetrovsk region) has dismissed acting board chairman David von Lingen and appointed Silvio Tide as the company's board chairman. Tide was elected to chair the board for three years until 2016. Previously he was a HeidelbergCement manager in Northern Russia.
Von Lingen took up the office of acting board chairman on 1 January 2013 in a position to last until 28 February 2013. Previously he had been a board member and the chief financial officer at the company.
HeidelbergCement began operations on the Ukrainian market in 2001. The company produces cement at two plants, one in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region south-west of Kieve region and the other in Amvrosiyivka, Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine.
